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Thread #71648 Message #1227255
Posted By: Jeanie
16-Jul-04 - 05:54 PM
Thread Name: Songs by Shakespeare
Subject: RE: Songs by Shakespeare
Newly published (April 2004) and just what you are looking for:
"Shakespeare's Songbook" by Ross W. Duffin (Prof. of Music at Case Western Reservere University), published by W.W. Norton. The result of 8 years' research; 160 songs included in or mentioned in Shakespeare's plays, with accompanying CD.
All the publisher's details are here: Shakespeare's Songbook
For people in the UK, I know it's available from French's (saw someone enquiring about it and buying one in there only yesterday !)
"What is love ? 'Tis not hereafter,
Present mirth hath present laughter."
To all those who say otherwise, I say "Sneck up !"
(I love that scene, too).
- jeanie